TIOBE December 2015 - D rose 5 positions

[Joakim via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 15:54:53 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> On Sunday, 3 January 2016 at 15:17:46 UTC, Joakim wrote:
>> As Bubba says, in what way is it not accurate?  You list 
>> corporate usage of Go and D, but his comment wasn't about that.
>
> In every way!!! Tiobe is a cultural viral marketing phenomenon, 
> but a statistical and scientific disaster.
>
> Go may have a slight bias on github, and there might be a 
> slight bias against Microsoft products on github, but there is 
> absolutely no reason to think that D is in disfavour on github 
> compared to Rust and Go.
>
> The trend is that Go and Swift dwarfs the AoT competition and 
> that Rust destroys D and Nim.
>
> (And it should be rather obvious to anyone that a listing that 
> does not have JavaScript close to the top is 100% bogus. 
> JavaScript is the most widely deployed language, with most 
> professional working with it, part time or full time.)

You missed the context of that quote, it wasn't about TIOBE.  In 
fact, we're not sure what rsw0x is saying is not accurate, as a 
list of corporate usage has little to do with the comment he was 
replying to.

I have no real opinion on the validity of TIOBE, but I think you 
overrate the importance of github and overestimate use of 
javascript.  Of course, there's no good way to settle that 
question.